Written by Jon Davison/Alan White
Intro: E G#m E G#m E G#m F# E Were you drifting G#m On a strange tide? E Collecting visions G#m From the other side? E Caught between day and night G#m You were stealing moments past hours F# Of your life And balancing on E The edge of a knife G#m E Memories of once longer days G#m They keep on flooding back E The adventurous times when we G#m Traveled life's road F# Though we were often blind C#m But with a lot more heart E F# And for each other B Taking the time Em On a wing and a prayer B E A wounded bird in the hand F# With the eyes of a child B E Come to understand F# I will open the book B Raise the pen E Let it reinvent B My life again F# Take me from where I am As a freed bird E Flies from the hand F# To ascend, to ascend ( E G#m E G#m ) E Were you catching G#m The last train to nowhere? E Playing out scenes G#m Of dark desert days? E Put it behind you now G#m F# Call out those bleak shadows from your mind And never again E Slip through the cracks G#m E Memories of once longer days G#m They keep on flooding back E The adventurous times when we G#m Traveled life's road F# Though we were often blind C#m But with a lot more heart E F# And for each other B Taking the time Em On a wing and a prayer B E A wounded bird in the hand F# With the eyes of a child B E Come to understand F# I will open the book B Raise the pen E Let it reinvent B My life again F# Take me from where I am As a freed bird E Flies from the hand B To ascend, to ascend